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The cottages on Ebor Lane HOUSING developer Skipton Properties has been told its plans to alter a row of listed cottages would be "unacceptable." Last Summer Bradford Council granted permission for the developer to convert existing listed buildings at Ebor Mills in Haworth into homes, and building 24 new homes on the rest of the site. Earlier this year Skipton Properties asked Bradford Council for Listed Building Consent to make alterations to a number of Grade II listed cottages on Ebor Lane, numbers 4, 5 and 8. In its application the company had said it: "Acquired the dwellings in q...

Plans to replace the play area were announced over a year ago, shortly before the Pandemic began. The Council said that the facility is one of the busiest in Bradford, and hoped that re-vamping it would turn it into the “destination” play area for the District. There had been calls to upgrade the play area for years - and at its busiest there would be queues to use the swings. One local Councillor, Sarfraz Nazir (Lab, Manningham) said some areas were in “a state of disrepair.” The new play area design was described as “exciting, unique and innovative” in the planning appli...

THE long journey to turn the former Odeon in Bradford city centre into a live music venue has taken another step forward. The former cinema, which has been empty for two decades, will be reborn as Bradford Live - a major new live music venue. This week the latest planning application for the building was approved by Bradford Council. It called for slight amendments to the previously approved scheme, including the infilling of the central entrance to the building - which was created in the 1960s. The plans also called for a new exit door to the East elevation of the building.

People may be more familiar with the building’s more recent use - an Indian restaurant called Paprika. The Council’s Conservation Officer Jon Ackroyd said: “The Nags Head is a former pub dating from the early 19th century. “It may have been purpose built to serve traffic on the Bradford to Halifax turnpike which would have been a busy route at the time. “The building has not been used as a pub in a number of years, and is now in poor condition, with abortive internal works leaving the interior in a stripped and rather dangerous state. “It is evident however that the inte...

The proposed site of the new food business PLANS to create a food court in a city centre Conservation Area have been refused by planning officers. Late last year an application was submitted to Bradford Council that called for a section of pay and display car park on Sunbridge Road to be converted into an outdoor eatery. It would have seen shipping containers installed in the walled car park area at National House, and seating for 92 diners, both outdoor seating and seating under a new roof that would be installed between the containers. The application, by Sheraz Akram, said the plan...